TODAY’S DEVOTION (MONDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2023)
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 TLB
WELCOME TO THE 345TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF SIGNS AND WONDERS.
We are marching forward and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So long as our decisions are not outsourced from the human or demonic planes, we are in shape as a people of God.
Amen and amen!!!
This morning God is bringing another set of wisdom to us. Heaven has something to say!
Today’s word will be on some mysteries of divine plans and counsels. I want us to get ready for a deposit that will make sure we are not deposited in hellish situations and circumstances.
I hope you are ready! Now let’s get started!!
There are three basic plans that are influencing humanity on our planet earth today; the plans of God, the plans of man, and the plans of the evil one (the devil). The Bible sometimes calls plans “counsels,” and it says “the counsel of God shall stand.”
Meaning others may manifest but will never stand the test of time. Only that of God will both manifest and stand the test of time.
The plans of God are the only ideal plans for us. They are the only plans on planet earth that has a glorious future for any man. Sadly, many are living according to the plans of men and the evil one for their lives. That is why they are in misery.
We were not originally designed to live on earth according to our own plans for our lives, or or any other plan, irrespective of how lofty they may look in our eyes. We were designed to live on earth according to God’s plans.
Our peace and prosperity were designed to come that way!!!
YOU WILL NEVER FIND PEACE AND PROSPERITY (THE PROSPERITY OF THE RIGHTEOUS), ANY OTHER WAY.
That is why people who are terribly oppressed do not find lasting peace through the deliverance programs they go through. Peace on earth is designed to come to mankind when they begin to live their lives according to divine plans.
Wait a minute; it seems many have not understood what true Christianity is. It is important to understand what it is.
True Christianity is not receiving power from God to succeed in your own plans. That will be Christianity controlled by the spirit of Babylon – a system of the corrupt world that now rules the corrupt church. True Christianity is submitting your entire life to Jesus Christ, and harmonizing every detail of it with His plans.
Now, if you have not heard it before, I want to announce to you through this devotional that God has a plan for you. Your job is to discover it by the help of His Holy Spirit and harmonize your life with it. Period!
The rhythm your life will produce if you harmonize it with God’s plans is supernaturally pleasant. Two words we can use to describe it are “peace” and “Prosperity.” Not the prosperity of the wicked or that of a fool, but the prosperity of the righteous.
Yes, because we live in an imperfect world there could be challenges, but the peace and the prosperity of God will always be available to deal with them.
Your security, prosperity, protection, significance, and progress in life are buried in that plan. Stepping into it is the only key to turning every good thing in your life on.
Meaning, you cannot become anything significant in this life as a Child of God until you step into God’s plan for your life.
Places, people, programs, systems, and cultures that aligns with God’s plans for your life, are the most secured for your life on earth. The best decision you will ever take in life is a decision that aligns with God’s plan for your life.
YOU WILL NOT NEED PRAYER TO BE PROTECTED FROM EVIL, ONCE YOU FIND AND PLANT YOURSELF WITHIN GOD’S PLANS FOR YOUR LIFE.
Sadly, many do not know that!
Get this straight; what God has designed to be turned on in your life by stepping into His plan, cannot be turned on by praying, fasting, or ‘sowing seeds’ to get it done. When the bad and ugly are always happening to you, it is a sign that you are either outside God’s plan for your life or you are not following them accurately.
Stepping into God’s plan for your life remains the only solution to your entire problems. Life outside God’s plans can be very horrible. You will lack divine interventions when you need them most.
Many do not know that God do not just intervene in things. He will first look into the situation to see if the people involved are in His plans for their lives. If they are not, it will be difficult to secure lasting interventions. Hence, in His love and mercy, He will send a word to them, to bring them into His plans for their lives before intervening in their situations.
Divine manifestations that brings lasting change, can only be seen in our lives after we have all aligned with divine plans.
The Israelites were in Egypt for 400 years. They were in slavery.
Many people were also in slavery like them under other kings, especially in Africa and other places. But God could not bring these other slaves out of their task masters except the Israelites.
He was able to bring Israel out because they were in His divine plan.
The easiest way to terminate the works of the devil in your life is to step into a divine plan of GOD for your life. Step into a Church that is God’s plan for your life. Submit to a minister of the gospel that is God’s plan for your life.
Get involved in any ministry that is God’s plans for your life. Get married to a man of woman that is God’s plan for your life. Pursue a career that is God’s plan for your life.
Buy a car or live in a house that is God’s plans for your life.
People who limit their lives just to things that are God’s plans for them, will end up living the most blessed and peaceful lives on earth. When you step into God’s plan for your life, the enemy will step out of your life.
GOD’S DIVINE PLANS AND DEMONIC OPPRESSION CANNOT CO-EXIST!
Even in the school of receiving blessing from God, what will come to you by stepping into God’s plans for your life, will never come to you through any other means!
Our devotional text quoted God saying;
“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
God’s plans are the only plans with a future – a glorious future; not your plan or the plan of your love ones for your life. When you step into God’s plan, irrespective of how bleak and unpromising they may look at the immediate, you have indeed stepped into a glorious future.
Now, having known all that, how do we step into God’s plan for our lives? It begins with a word from the LORD. It begins from the place of revelation. God will have to speak or reveal them to you.
Understand that anything about God, is not discovered on the surface of life; it is revealed to the Heart in the deeper places of the Spirit. To discover God’s plan for your life therefore, you must begin a deeper walk with God.
For many of you, I will say you have been shallow for too long. You must now decide to go deep with the LORD, at least to discover God’s true plans for your life.
When you walk with God and allow Him to take you to the deeper places of His Spirit, you will wake up one day to see yourself fulfilling His plans for your life.
This year has literary been our year of divine wisdom, truths, and deeper matters of life and destiny. It is my prayer that we all make use of these precious truths and come into a more glorious life next year.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE AN ADDITIONAL MEDITATION FOR TODAY;
“The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nought; He makes the thoughts and plans of the peoples of no effect.”
“The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all generations.”
“Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His heritage.” Psalms 33:10-11 AMP